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Metal thieves strike Houston streets
Houston :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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TV (Channel 13) is reporting that early today at Spectrum Metals on Hughes in southeast Houston, police stopped a truck: Officers say the suspects pulled a pickup truck to the business and hopped the fence and began loading sheet metal. What they
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GPA: 19 manhole covers stolen
Tamuning :: Guam | over 1 year ago
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Links The baffling theft of 19 manhole covers has left the Guam Power Authority scrambling for replacements and investigators faced with a mystery motive. The cast-iron covers were swiped off a high-voltage underground power line, which runs adjacent
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Tanzania: Lets Tackle Vandalism
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | over 1 year ago
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Lets Tackle Vandalism 10 October 2011 editorial Vandalism is on the increase in Tanzania. Electrical wires, bridge metal parts, telephones cables, manhole covers and bus stop sheds fittings are stolen for sale as scrap metals. Although the nation
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B.C. government moving to put a vice on metal recyclers over safety and loss
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Metal thieves will take just about anything to make a few bucks at the nearest recycling company, from telephone and power wires to manhole covers and memorial plaques. Those brazen acts have now gained the attention of the British Columbia
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Drain, manhole covers disappearing in Longview
Longview :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Metal thieves are the likely suspects in the disappearance of dozens of storm drain gates, water meter lids and manhole covers in Longview. The Daily News reports ( http://bit.ly/n2pKyS ) each storm drain gate costs the city about $115 to replace. A
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Washington Boulevard upgrades under way
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Allegheny County Sanitary Authority has replaced eight traditional manhole covers with new, hinged covers that would blow open, but not off, in future floods. It's also building wooden and concrete frames around the manholes so rescue workers wading
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Sacramento police crack down on copper thefts
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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In the weeks ahead, Sacramento Police will be cracking down on metal recyclers, to combat the ongoing problem of thieves cashing in on stolen copper...Suspects are taking wiring from light posts, electrical boxes, air conditioning units, sump pumps,
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Kenya: Disaster Offered a Snapshot of All You Need to Know About Slum Life
Cape Town :: South Africa | over 1 year ago
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Disaster Offered a Snapshot of All You Need to Know About Slum Life Murithi Mutiga 12 September 2011 Stephen Njau cannot remember which came first; the sight or the sound of death...He ran and ran and ran. "It was like a movie," he says. "I saw the
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Road Warrior: Flooding conceals manhole danger
Elmwood Park :: IL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Back when a flooded street promised as much fun as a day at the beach, Dan Gaskill frolicked in knee-deep water as if it were a neighborhood pool. "We didn't know any better then," the Mercer County driving instructor recalled, "and it seems like
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Thieves stealing manhole covers in Naperville
Chicago :: IL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Police say the covers, stamped with sanitary sewer or water, weigh about 50 pounds. They said residents should be careful when driving or walking to avoid possible injuries resulting from the uncovered holes. Naperville Crime Stoppers is offering up
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